Full Name
Grant Kimberley
Job Title
Sr Director of Market Development
Company
Iowa Soybean Association
Speaker Bio
Grant Kimberley serves as the Senior Director of Market Development for the Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) and the Executive Director of the Iowa Biodiesel Board (IBB).

Kimberley has been with ISA for 25 years and is responsible for all marketing and demand-building initiatives for ISA. This includes working with soybean industry partners, including the U.S. Soybean Export Council offices all around the world working with buyers and government officials on trade.

Grant also became the Executive Director of the Iowa Biodiesel Board in 2014. The Iowa Biodiesel Board is an independent state trade association governed by its own industry board and managed by the Iowa Soybean Association. IBB represents the biodiesel industry and works to coordinate and lead policy efforts in Iowa and around the country on behalf of the Iowa biodiesel industry.

In addition to his responsibilities at ISA and IBB, he is part of a family farm row crop operation near Maxwell, which is in central Iowa. He is the sixth generation of his family to farm in the U.S. He and his wife Natalie have two children, and Kimberley is active in his church and coaching youth sports with his son. He attended Waldorf College and later Northwest Missouri State University and graduated with a Bachelors degree in Agriculture Business and following that he received his Masters degree from Drake University.
Grant Kimberley